Archive for May 21st, 2009

COMMON INFECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD: TONSILLECTOMY

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

In days gone by, most children would have had their tonsils removed — it seemed a ritual for anyone who had had more than a few attacks of tonsillitis. Often the doctor would do all the children in a family in the one morning. It was one of the rites of passage of childhood.

Nowadays tonsillectomy [...]